13 mai 2011

Romania has failed to adequately implement rules against torture and ill-treatment, and to prohibit the use of evidence obtained through torture in the criminal code, according to Amnesty more

12 mai 2011

The County Council of Tulcea, southeastern Romania, wants to contract road maintenance work for the period 2011-2014, through a frame-agreement worth an estimated 34 million lei (EUR8.3 million), more

12 mai 2011

Romanian President Traian Basescu said Thursday that the Nabucco pipeline project is viable, as long as Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan are among its partners, and defended Turkmenistan's need for more

11 mai 2011

Romanian public road authority CNADNR on Wednesday published the offers it received for the supervision of the construction of highway segments on Pan-European Corridor IV, in four contracts worth a more

11 mai 2011

The employees of the Romanian Interior Ministry will soon go through integrity tests, given by undercover officers, said chief-commissioner Gabriel Constantin of the ministry's General Anticorruption more

11 mai 2011

Hewlett-Packard (HP) will hire 600 people this year for its Global eBusiness Operation Centre (GeBOC) in Bucharest, which currently has a staff of 3,100, Alexander Weigl, the center's general manager, more

10 mai 2011

Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc has decided that employers' associations and labor unions will be represented in the inter-ministry committee that will prepare the adoption of the euro by one member more

10 mai 2011

Romania's Government will offer a 20% stake of state-owned railway company CFR Marfa by initial public offering, "with a view toward full privatization when market conditions permit," according to the more

10 mai 2011

King Michael of Romania announced Tuesday he is renouncing his historic and dynastic ties to the House of Hohenzollern, as well as the titles "Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen." more

9 mai 2011

The number of jobless people in Romania was 493,438 in April, while the unemployment rate dropped to 5.41% from 5.92% in March, reaching the level recorded in January 2007, Prime Minister Emil Boc more

9 mai 2011

More than one fifth of urban Romanians use private medical services and over two thirds of this group choose them for their better quality compared to public healthcare, according to a survey ordered more

9 mai 2011

Romanian authorities might be able to sell public housing for a price determined by an expert evaluator, closer to the home's regular market price, as per a Government-sponsored bill changing the way more

8 mai 2011

Romanian and the IMF strongly maintain that the budget deficit for 2010 was computed accurately, President Traian Basescu said Saturday, adding that Romanian authorities are open to implementing the more

8 mai 2011

Romanian President Traian Basescu said Saturday that the top priority for 2011 is improving management in state companies and autonomous administrations, which will soon have to report to the Ministry more

6 mai 2011

The Romanian Government and the IMF delegation have not yet reached an agreement on the state companies to be privatized or restructured, or the right time to reduce social security contribution more

6 mai 2011

Romanian state-owned railway passenger carrier CFR Calatori Friday said it has begun restructuring its network, which will entail cutting the number of regional branches to four and laying off 1,021 more

6 mai 2011

The environmental impact study for a joint Romania-Bulgaria project to improve the navigability of the Danube has not been completed, because of "slow" collaboration with Bulgarian authorities, the more

6 mai 2011

The television film "William & Kate: A Royal Love Story" about Prince William and Kate Middleton, will be filmed in Bucharest, MediaPro Studios officials said Friday. more

5 mai 2011

Around 21% of the Romanian urban users of mobile Internet prefer it to a land-line connection, according to the study "Unlocking the Power of Mobile" by media consulting firm Initiative. more

5 mai 2011

The Romanian Institute for Public Policy (IPP), a non-government organization, asked Prime Minister Emil Boc to repeal an order by former Labor Minister Ioan Botis, which classified information on the more

5 mai 2011

Romanian insurer ING Asigurari de Viata's underwritten premiums decreased by 1.7% in the first three months of the year, to 133.5 million lei (EUR32.5 million) and its gross profit dropped 28.7%, to more

5 mai 2011

Cable television operator UPC Romania's client base dropped by 16,700 in the first quarter, to around 1.14 million, but the number of subscriptions decreased by only 11,500, as the company gained more

4 mai 2011

Candidates for a position in the Romanian High Court of Cassation and Justice will have to meet a series of criteria, including at least 15 years work experience as a judge/prosecutor, and will be more

4 mai 2011

France Telecom-Orange announced Wednesday that it currently has no plans to sell its Romanian assets, after one of its managers said Tuesday that the group might give up some of its smaller more

4 mai 2011

Romania's Senate on Wednesday approved a bill setting a new formula for the calculation of the car tax, which takes into account the vehicle's value according to brand, type and engine. more